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Q&A with Walter J. Nicholls, Series Editor of IJURR
Apr 16 2024
The IJURR Book Series has established itself as a cornerstone in the field of global urban studies, pushing the boundaries of critical, interdisciplinary, and theory-driven urban research across the globe. Entering a new phase with its partnership with UC Press starting in 2024, the IJURR Book Serie
Q&A with Stathis G. Yeros, author of Queering Urbanism
Apr 10 2024
Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. As spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity in the United States, cultural assimilation increasingly erases insurgent aspects of these social movements. Thi
How Online Black Resistance Efforts Outlive Political Clickbait
Mar 13 2024
By Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd, author of Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital AgeFor my sanity, I’ve mostly avoided politics this 2024 season. Yet somehow, I found myself glued to the television for the recent State of the Union address — the “superbowl” for politi
Making Television Feminist
Mar 12 2024
By Jennifer S. Clark, author of Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's LiberationWhen I started writing a book about the women’s movement and television, I imagined that it would explore how feminism changed what Americans saw on their TV screens. But as the project developed,
Q&A with Musab Younis, author of On the Scale of the World
Jan 25 2023
On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Black intellectuals in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean established theories of colonialism and racism as structures that must be unde
Marc Stein: How to Become a Queer Historian
Jun 21 2022
This interview was originally published on Public Seminar and is reproduced here with permission.Marc SteinMarc Stein is Professor of History at San Francisco State University, where he teaches U.S. law, politics, sexuality, gender, race, and social movements. He’s also an old friend: we met
How Bolivians Fought For — and Won — Water Access for All
Mar 22 2022
By Sarah Hines, author of Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern BoliviaIn January 2006, Evo Morales Ayma became the first indigenous president of Bolivia. He was elected in the wake of a five-year period of popular rebellion that began with mass protests against water priv
A Black History (Virtual) Tour of New York City
Feb 25 2022
Welcome to the virtual tour of A People’s Guide to New York City! Unlike traditional guidebooks that highlight the glitz, glamor, consumption, and spectacle of cities, often at the expense of people of color, immigrants, the working class, and LGBTQ communities, A People’s Guide to NYC offers an alt
The Ward Valley Nuclear Waste Dump That Never Was
Feb 25 2022
By Tracy Perkins, author of Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice ActivismGroup photo at the annual Ward Valley commemoration ceremony. February 24, 2018. Photo by author.Today, there is no nuclear waste dump in Ward Valley. This beautiful stretch of Calif
How May Day 1930 Hastened Myles Horton’s Radical Labor Activism
May 01 2021
By Stephen Preskill, author of Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's Vision for Social JusticeMay Day in 1930 America was a dismal affair. In the first months of the year, the United States, like much of the rest of the world, was sinking into a deep economic dep